Neil Collings (1946–2010) was an eminent Church of England priest who was Dean of St Edmundsbury.
[1] He was born on 26 August 1946 and educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School and King's College London and ordained in 1970.
While at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, he organised the 2009 Royal Maundy Collings was one of the most prominent clerical Freemasons of his era.
He served as a Lodge Chaplain, and later as Provincial Grand Chaplain in both the Provinces of Hertfordshire and Devonshire, subsequently becoming Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Hertfordshire.
[5] Less than a year before his death Collings urged his fellow Freemasons to be bold in proclaiming their membership of the fraternity, stating "I believe that it is time that we, as English Freemasons, re-examined our roots and the things we do.